The mystery of the century-old house that survived the Maui fire

2023-08-22 10:18:29

Updated Tuesday, August 22, 2023 – 10:18

A hundred-year-old house, with a red roof, managed to remain standing in the midst of the ashes

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In the devastating fires that have ravaged the island of Mauian image has become viral: the house that survived the flames in the town of Lahaina. It is a wooden house, more than 100 years old, located on Front Street. The good condition of the building, with its reddish roof, contrasts with the destruction caused by the flames in all the houses that surround it.

The fire that broke out on August 8 devastated much of the city, but miraculously spared the picturesque house overlooking the ocean. “It looks like it’s been photoshopped,” the owner said, Trip Millikinto the Honolulu Civil Beat outlet, when assessing that only his home would have resisted in the neighborhood.

Millikin and his wife bought the house in 2021 and spent two years restoring it into their dream home. They installed a steel roof, cleared the weeds, and surrounded it with river rocks., as reported to the aforementioned newspaper. Some reforms that perhaps were decisive for the house to be saved from burning.

When the fire broke out, that has cost the lives of more than 100 people, Millikin and his wife were on a trip to Massachusetts. One of his neighbors warned him that he would probably lose his home, but the next day he sent him the image that has gone viral, with his house standing in the midst of destruction and ashes.

“We started crying. I felt guilty. We still feel guilty.”, Millikin confessed to the Honolulu Civil Beat. The couple’s idea is to help their neighbors rebuild the city, the former capital of Hawaii. “Let’s rebuild this together. This house will become a base for all of us,” the owner encouraged.